Community Quote by Cacilda Jethá

“Thinking ‘economistically’, as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans.”

— Tony Judt

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,…

— Herman E. Daly

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set…

— Gary Becker

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

— Edward C. Prescott

The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion:…

— Frances Moore Lappé

“Depicting rational economic man as an isolated individual – unaffected by the choices of others – proved highly convenient for modelling the economy, but…

— Kate Raworth

“THE HUMAN COMMUNITY has reached a critical point in its history. The world today forces us to accept that humanity is one. In the…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“there is enormous value in what economists call social capital. It’s a professor’s term, but the concept is pretty simple: The networks of people…

— J.D. Vance

“[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries”

— Steven E. Landsburg

“Ultimately, what economics attempts to measure, underneath money, is the totality of all that human beings make and do for each other.”

— Charles Eisenstein

“Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? . . . And just tell me where in the world…

— Milton Friedman

“When a nation was faced with a choice between abstract principle or complete self-interest, it took self-interest every time.”

— Jack L. Chalker